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- From: spongebo@cithara.UUCP (Gary Seven)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,talk.politics.guns,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Message-ID: <6D1qTB1w165w@cithara.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 04:16:28 GMT
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- pcl@oxford.ac.uk (Paul Leyland) writes:
-
- > For you conspiracy theory folk, it is of course well known that GCHQ
- > does not spy on British communications; neither does NSA on US
- > communications. However, there is nothing to stop the two
- > organisations from trading information.
- >
- > I am not necessarily suggesting that GCHQ intercepts US comms.
- >
- > Paul
-
-
- Paul, what is the source of your info? I recently saw a documentary
- segment on CBC Newsworld where a former GCHQ worker claimed that GCHQ was
- in fact reading the telexes and faxes of it's citizens. Also that it was
- prone to the abuse of power, particularly in regard to *DICTIONARY*,
- their Key-Word data sifter.
-
- Something else which brought them (GCHQ) under fire was a category
- of file labelled "Not For Ministerial Eyes". The implication of this was,
- of course, that GCHQ was *not* answerable to the Parliament, and therefor
- not the people.
-
- While Britain is considered by many to be the most paranoid "democracy"
- in the "free-world", this seems to be taking it just a little too far!
- If you have information to contradict this, please let me know.
-
- Also, do you have any idea if (and what) a *Dictionary* is being used by
- other "powers", and if so in what varieties -- ie, how capable IS this
- thing!
-
- Thanks for your time,
-
- Owen
-